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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:17:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:47:50PM -0700, Douglas Goodall wrote:
>>On Aug 16 15:40, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>I'm wondering why nobody complains that Linux doesn't understand drive
>>>>letters.
>>>
>>>Well, the obvious answer is because Linux doesn't *have* drive letters.
>>;-)
>>
>>That's *the* major drawback of Linux. When will Linux have drive
>>letters finally? As long as Linux doesn't have drive letters, it's
>>totally unusable and the Linux people should not be surprised that
>>nobody will ever use Linux!!!1!
>
>What are you talking about. Either you like Unix or you don't. To the
>best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't have drive letters either. Its
>not the Unix way. Your position astounds me ;-)
I'm pretty sure that HP/UX understands drive letters, though.
I have 30 years of experience in the computer industry so I am obviously
right about this.
cgf